On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 04:29:31PM -0500, Brian Ericson wrote: > I was just working on a reply to my own email as I realized it was > only dumb-luck that converted 1200 noisy changes into a couple of > dozen. "-S" matches only the string itself, not the line the string > resides on. So, -Sxyz will match if "xyz" itself was added or > deleted in the diff (if "xyz" is on a line that's changed but did not > itself change, it won't match). Funny that I actually knew this -- I > use it to look for System.out.println additions among other things. Yes (though I couldn't have told you that without experimenting -- I always assumed it checked whole lines). > Interestingly, if I wanted to know if an import changed (on top of > knowing if imports were added or deleted), eg: -import foo; +import > bar; That is a bit harder, and AFAIK not possible with -S. You could always post process the log output. E.g.,: git log -p | perl -ne ' BEGIN { $/ = "commit " } chomp; print if /^\+import / ' which lets you get quite fancy with the matching. > The current behavior seems to work well to answer questions like "has > somebody added a System.out.println", The usual question (for me, anyway) is "when did X get introduced?" when looking for a token. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html